Named Account Executive, Higher Education (Texas)

100 Salesforce, Inc.; Texas; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off

Medical

Dental

Vision

Mental health

Parental leave

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k)

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking an experienced Enterprise Account Executive to drive growth within higher education accounts and develop long-term partnerships with key decision makers.

You will cultivate opportunities from warm leads and whitespace, coordinating cross-functional resources to deliver value aligned with customer objectives. You will lead account planning, expand footprints across existing customers, and maintain a strong focus on outcomes and pipeline generation in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle sales experience, with at least 5 years in Enterprise Sales.
• Experience selling to Higher Education customers.
• Proven success in hunting for new business and growing accounts.

Responsibilities

• Drive opportunities from warm leads and whitespace prospecting.
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders and C-suite decision makers.
• Coordinate internal Salesforce resources to meet customer business needs.
• Drive growth within assigned accounts and align to customer objectives.
• Demonstrate focus on outcomes over process.

Skills

Full cycle sales

Enterprise sales

New business

Relationship building

Executive engagement

Job description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Sales Job Details

About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. Our Enterprise EDU team focuses on working with our most strategic customers and institutions generating over $200m in revenue annually. You will have the opportunity to work in a fast paced team with various customers and receive personalized training and career opportunities.

Day to Day

• Our Named Account Executives drive business and engage with existing customers.
• They build positive, trusted relationships with both key team members and c-suite decision makers within their patch, and become naturals at helping customers realize value from their Salesforce investments.
• You will use your skills to develop opportunities, through both warm leads and whitespace prospecting.
• Persistent focus on pipe generation strategies and execution to seed, land and expand new and existing accounts
• Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts
• Develop and drive the overall long-term strategy for the account, aligned to customer business objectives
• Coordinate internal Salesforce resources to meet customer business needs
• Perform account planning at assigned accounts, coordinating with Prime and Cloud sales resources to ensure strategic alignment
• Share Salesforce value proposition for existing and/or new customers
• Drive growth within an existing assigned account
• Demonstrated focus on outcome over process

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications 8+ years of full cycle sales experience, at least 5 years in Enterprise Sales Experience working in Higher Education Demonstrates success and enthusiasm in hunting for new business Experience working with a large extended team Experience working in high-growth, performance focused environments Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

Unleash Your Potential

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Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including:

• time off programs
• medical
• dental
• vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• an employee stock purchasing program

More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

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